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Subversive Historian – 11/23/09

Von Ossietzky’s Peace Prize Back in the day on November 23rd, 1936, the Nobel Committee chose to award its Peace Prize for the previous year to pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky. The honor was announced at a time when the German anti-fascist was hospitalized and kept under constant surveillance by Gestapo forces.Von Ossietzky’s health had [...]

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